curriculum vitae

Born 1959 in Bamberg, Franconia. By conviction, not belonging to any discipline, thus undisciplined, amateur in various fields. Someone who can do no more and knows no more than the students, at best, other. Someone who tries to live a decent life and has made experiences that have unfortunately sedimented into behavioural patterns … Stop! That’s not how it works! In a time, in which everyone struggles for attention, in which already eighteen-year-olds write their autobiography and self-staging belongs indispensably to the professional game, it must be done differently! One must impress, demonstrate competence and uniqueness etc. … Diploma in computer science and mathematics, doctoral degree in engineering, carpenter journeyman, price winner, company founder, supervisory board chairman, scientific consultant, professor at an art university, twice its prorector, lived in London, Barcelona, Brussels and Cologne and so on. …. Yes, that’s how it works! Well, is that really better? I think it’s just a childish bauble.

More formal resume

Georg Trogemann has been a professor of Experimental Informatics at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne since 1994. In 1977, he completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter. He studied computer science and mathematics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, where he received his doctorate in 1990. From 1997 to 1999, and then later, 2004 to 2006 he was the prorector for research and infrastructure at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. His research topics include experimental algorithms, philosophy of technology, the theory of artefacts, and speculative cognitive systems.